Sinatra, Frank - All The Things You Are Lyrics

The greatest song ever

Harris, I would have to go with the Gershwins' "Someone to Watch Over Me," but this would be a close second.

beautiful

There are 29 misfits somewhere on this earth who don't like this performance or music !!!

what an arrangement...

One wonders how most of today's "singers" can claim to be singers! Exception... Michael Buble'

Sounds like a trained voice. He's an opera singer here.

Nope. This cant be divine, since half the Hammerstein is left away. Same to some other great singers.

esta hermosa melodia es semblanza de una epoca romantica, con hermosas canciones y musica esplendorosa que para desgracia de los actuales, no podra repetirse, a menos que tuvieran el espiritu de aquellos años, y dejenme decirles que no soy de esa epoca pero me encanta y sobre todo all the things you are. suprema¡

I love both Frank Sinatra and Gordon MaCrae singing this song.

Never fails to bring tears.

He looked like the man I love once too.

As far as his singing is concerned, this is my favorite Sinatra era!

How beautiful.

You betta croon Frank!!!!!

the best

"LOVELY"

At the end -- that's the highest note I've EVER heard Sinatra hit in all his performances and recordings!  Wow!  But then, he was young in 1945 when this was recorded, and while he lost some notes in the upper register as he aged, he gained a few in the lower register.

Thanks for posting all those old pictures of FS with this video -- very nice!

Frank Looks Like Eddie Vedder.

version nino bravo, real amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7N6VMuSpjI&index=16&list=PL1A244EC4EA30920E

I JUST SENT IT FOR MY EX.. SHE WILL BACK I KNOW

Although the 50s and early 60s are the Sinatra Renaissance period, there is a lot to be said for these early big band recordings. The purity of tone, the peerless phrasing, and the sustained power were present from the very beginning. Frank was the greatest among all the male popular singers. Only Nat King Cole even came close.

You express my sentiments exactly, Independent. The only thing that I would add is the wonderful arranging by Axel Stordahl which made the 1940s Columbia recordings so special.

I dare say Nat was ahead by a block, and ahead of him by a block was Crosby, but those were not the times to express such opinions.

I always liked Mel Torme. But Sinatra in the 1950's was pretty much unmatched.

What a talent -- he even got better as he got older, but I don't think he would have hit that last high note later on!  But I liked his more mature voice, and the songs he did later, after 1945 -- better.  He didn't have them fainting in the aisles when he was older, but his performances were always sold out and the crowd loved him, even when at the end, he forgot the lyrics for a second, someone shouted from way up in the audience, "We love you Frank" and the audience roared!  He picked up where he left off and performed beautifully.  He was pushing 80 then, and still people couldn't get enough of him.  He CHOSE to hang it up when he did.  NO singer sounds the same in old age as they did when young, voice ranges age too, don't forget!  (He lost a couple of notes in the upper register but gained a couple in the lower.)

Yes but he never should have come out of retirement in the 70s. His voice was long gone by then. Only the most inordinately devoted of fans embraced such misfires as the awful "New York, New York." How does that compare to "It Was a Very Good Year" or "All the Way"? Pitiful to even try.

Once again, I agree with you. The older he got the rougher his voice became. The cigarettes and Jack Daniels also took their toll..It's painful for me to listen to his later recordings.

It was only natural to expect that Sinatra's voice was not as good in his late years, but people all over the world recognized him for the legend that he was and still wanted to see and listen to him before he was to die.And we must remember that Frank made his mark singing the songs of the great composers like Kern, Porter, Rodgers Gershwin, etc. After them the quality of music declined with the exception of a few good composers. Frank had to settle for what music there was.

This is so many memories with this song!

This is just... divine. This may be the first dance I'll have with my husband at my wedding day. That would be truly wonderful.

I hope you did. God bless the both of you.

Just seeing your comment...20 years after it was the first dance at my wedding, played by a few friends and fellow musicians. I recommend.

I love all versions of this song, especially Michael Jackson´s.

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From the musical "Very Warm for May" 1939, Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II

UNA BELLEZA MAS DE SUS HERMOSAS CANCIONES

At 1:48 Frank looks like he hot-wired his first car.

+grindupBaker It actually was a mug shot, but not for car theft.

+catman916 I thought I was being witty there. My family saw Young at Heart (watch?v=1jfRo-DbgLw) at the Savoy East Acton in 1955. Something I find amusing is the courting guys'n'gals in 50s movies all look mid thirties when presumably supposed to be late teens or early twenties, hats and ties. Now kids looking about 15 years old in movies are supposedly brilliant scientists, criminologists, detectives, vampires. I suppose it's an aging thing.

+catman916. I shudder to think what it was actually for considering certain... connections.

been listening for past two hours. great memories of growing up in a proud Italian household!

This guy was lucky the mafia was behind him. His phrasing here is all wrong. See Jo Stafford's version, or Ella's for what it should sound like. And listen to that sugar candy and sentimental background! Awful!

+Ronnie Moore I think we've got past the stage of right and wrong phrasing. The music is there to be open to interpretation.

Frank's intonation was also questionable in many cases. The thing with Frank is that he's not polished. It's more about the edges. He was also kind of a pretty boy movie star too, so think more Elvis less Righteous Brothers in terms of sizzle to steak ratio

a great song--and hard to pull off--have to have great breath control for one--Sinatra had best breath control in business--it was the key to his phrasing--plus his intelligent reading of all songs he did.

'All the  Things You Are' was voted the best romantic song of all time and certainly one of the most recorded. Try Rebecca Luker's version, which I think is the best, even if some people think her voice is better suited to Opera. Oh, well,. as we've found out there's as many opinions as there are people!

+Sam Wharton yes--its voted that by critics, songwriters, etc--the perfect song really--and so listenable....

The greatest . A beautiful song

Wow!!!! such a lovely, beautiful song of all time and Frank Sinatra perfected it!!!!!

Frank Sinatra tells me there is a God and a Heaven. Thank you Frank Sinatra.

Well,the great man got at least one thing wrong.

can you say Ronan Farrow !

Grow up man. If that's your only known reference to the great Sinatra you shouldn't speak.

Thanks for posting!

I love the music of Jerome Kern!

I wish Frank had recorded this song in his prime--the 1950s, when his expression was so much better and there was Riddle to do the arrangement. One of the great songs, and Tony Bennett's favorite.

YOU ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE TRIUMPH

Looking at the 4-CD set on Amazon, used, right now.

By all  means get it. You can't go wrong adding it to your collection, Avery.

I absolutely concur.

You would appreciate The Columbia Years: 1943-1952 12 CD Box set. It contains all of his Columbia recordings, but unfortunately is expensive. There is also the much more affordable The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952 4 CD box set.

This is Frankie before The Rat Pack, before Vegas, when he was the boyish charmer who had girls fainting in their seats. And dig that last note. Beat that!

Efectivamente, hemos notado que mucho gente prefiere el Sinatra de la segunda época. Personalmente, también me gusta su primera, con Tommy Dorsey.

Es que con el paso de los años la voz va cambiando.

I listened to him live on the radio when he had the girls screaming and swooning in the 1940s---did you know that he had his sport jacket seams made so that the jackets would fall apart when the girls pulled on them? This was done for Frank's personal safety---I sing on YouTube---much of it Sinatra tunes

Am surprised nobody recalls that Frank developed 'singer's nodules' on his vocal cords. They are like corns on the palm from heavy manual labour. His original voice deteriorated to the point that he couldnt sing more then a few bars before the pain and inflammation seized his throat. He had a surgery to remove those nodules and afterwards his voice returned, but his vocal cords were now of a different mass and size, so that lovely voice was replaced by the voice of an old man. His technique remained and he leveraged that to make up for the loss of vocal quality. I know this because I went through the same hell, but I wasn't as lucky as Frank and my voice remains a rasp.

Yes, he was the boyish charmer, as you say, but until the 1950's he could never end a song well. That shouting is miserable. Otherwise, he's earnest and mellifluous!

I actually like Frank's voice in the fifties. Especially his incredible album "In The Wee Small Hours" The voice  had mellowed into a nice baritone and had more emotion after all his romantic adventures ala Ava Gardner. Another great album " Only the Lonely" with a fabulous picture on the album cover. There are not many singers , maybe Tony Bennett that could make you feel their pain. There will never be another Frank Sinatra.

It's important to remember that 10 years elapsed from the time he recorded "All the Things You Are" to In The Wee Small Hours. His voice did deepen and mellow and he had experienced the breakup of his marriage to Ava, hemorrhaging of his vocal cords, and the loss of his recording contract with Columbia records. These events, no doubt, were important factors in his voice changing.

"In The Wee Small Hours" and "Only The Lonely" are two of my favorite albums. Add to the aforementioned damages his smoking, and you're looking at a rougher-edged, less lyrical sound. But he made the best of it. 

@Avery Gordon
Don't forget No One Cares, Where Are You, and Point of No Return to round out his darker theme albums of the 1950s.

Never! 9/2018

Great pity that Sinatra went on singing beyond his expiry date. Here we find him at his best.

I love the early years. There's a brilliant album called "Where Are You" and I highly recommend it.

When he hit the high note at the end of this beautiful song, Frank Sinatra had recorded a magnificent rendition of this Kern composition.What a brilliant artist he was!

+century123ful - Yes closed circle,---I'VE listened to Sinatra's version of OVER THE RAINBOW many times because it is so beautiful. Whenever I WANT TO LISTEN TO BEAUTIFUL MUSIC I simply tune out most of the crap that's prevalent in today's music and listen to Sinatra. He was the very best and how I miss him!

+gyniest While I love his recordings from the 1950s, I think that Sinatra made some of his greatest recordings in the 1940s. His ballads with Axel Stordahl have not been surpassed.

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One of the greatest songs ever written. And Ol' Blue Eyes does such a great job. But hey,I'm biased!!!

This is most eloquently perfect music: The Voice, Melody, and wonderfully orchestrated musical prosody. GENIUS!

Frank Sinatra---The Best Singer That Ever Was.

@Jeremiah Peppercorn
I  suspect that there are more exceptions, Jeremiah. Fortunately you have the opportunity to explore his many recordings from this period. I have uploaded a number of them.

Thank you. I do actually own the Columbia Years box set and A Voice in Time. Just haven't given them much love over the years, I suppose. I also have the Harry James recordings and the Tommy Dorsey box set, both of which deserve more of my attention, admittedly.

@Jeremiah Peppercorn
You are a true Sinatra fan, Jeremiah. I think that the box sets are the very best way to collect his music. Do you have the complete Capitol and Reprise box sets and the Capitol singles one also? 

@catman916
I agree, and indeed I do. The Reprise set was the first I picked up after finding it at a HPB for $200 (the regular set, though, not the trunk). I believe that is also where I found the Capitol singles box. Then I ordered the rest (including Sinatra in Hollywood, another good one to pick up) from Amazon.

@Jeremiah Peppercorn
It's always great to encounter another Sinatreaphile. I have not tried HPB, but found my box sets on Amazon and Ebay. I tell people that if you can afford them, they are the best way to collect music.

Frank did a good job with this song but Tony Martin really polished it.

Yes--and there's several technical chord progressions to the song which I can't get into here that also zoom the whole thing upwards. Its rated as the 'perfect song' consistently on all levels

This song breaks the mold in several different ways. First of all there is the utterly beautiful melody and lyrics by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Of course we have this gorgeous orchestration by Axel Stordahl. Then the great interpreter, Frank Sinatra truly does justice to what the songwriters had in mind. He is also a master of legato as noted by his seamless phrasing. On several occasions Frank acknowledged TD's legato style trombone playing as an influence on him in this regard.

You are an intelligent and astute listener! Exactly so!

One year ago or not. Dont care.
First of all, It depends on what "Heavy metal concert" you went to. The real heavy metal has some of the most talented instrumentalists in the business, and some of the lyrics have a meaning if you bother to research. Heavy metal is not modern garbage. The modern garbage in my opinion Justin Bieber, or One Direction.
Dont bash a genre because of one concert you went to. Im and avid listener of both music like this and metal, and they are both great types of music.

The kid sang real good, but Buddy Rich "cut him a new larynx on the "tubs !" lol

The term rock and roll is usually attributed to Alan Freed, not Murray Kaufman.

If you want great guitar work check out Michael Bloomfield and Walter Trout.

I listened to death metal before coming here. Both are fantastic. If you want good vocals, listen to this. If you want great guitarwork listen to metal.

So Beautiful! Not just his voice but the song writing and composing were so much better too!!

He was.

You're NOT alone brother,, we feel you,, trust me,,, how could music go from this,,,, to,,,,, THAT?!?! LOL!!! Rock and roll, is nothing but sex played to music,,, heck,, the name rock & roll,, meant, having sex! fact!!! Check the history,,, I actually heard an interview a while back about the origin of the name, which was coined by a d.j. and I think it was Murray the K from New York,, but if I'm wrong on that, I'm sorry,, but,, the name rock & roll was a slang word for having sex!!

It is loud and especially women yelling at the top of their lungs like they are being murdered.

Ha ha are you kidding? It's not 'all music' it's like the man said:
"How can this modern garbage be called music, it is devoid of any melody and the lyrics are a joke, it plumbs the depths of musical depravity."

"It's all music", this is a very lame excuse not to learn more, and listen different point of views, If someone has more insight into life, more depth of feeling you should listen, might do you good.

To be honest I'm not much of a fan of Metal music myself, but I never really call it out for being 'bad' music. Music can never be bad, just.. Different.
I'm just happy it's there.

just shut up about modern music sucking. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP. jesus, every goddamn video i watch, you fuckers are all out there with this same bullshit. It's all music bro, just let it be.

This actually was his mug shot when he was arrested in Bergen County, N.J. in 1938,when he was 23-years-old.

1:49, looks likes Sinatra is a criminal

El mejor!!! por mas que pasen los años, siempre me gusta...

I will upload 2 different versions of "If You Are But A Dream." I will try to get to "The House I Live In" later.

Thanks- I would be most appreciative!

Would you like me to upload them?

Thank you very much.I remember seeing him sing these songsbackwhen I myself was a young kid. I was enthralled by the young Sinatra, who even then, sang with such poise and became the great artist of his day and for many years afterwards And what else distinguished him from other singers was his charisma and unmatched phrasing. Thanks again!

I have both of these recordings. Would you like me to upload them, century123ful?

In the l940's,there was a special short moviemade about racial intolerance. In it, young Sinatra sang two beautiful songs, "The House I Live In" and "If You Are But A Dream". The movie won a special award and Sinatra received high acclaim for his performance. If you've never heard both of these musical numbers, you're really missing something special.Sinatra was just about perfect if there is such a thing as perfection.

Really? I've been a Sinatra fan going all the way back to the days when he was a vocalist for Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. I stillhave most of his recordings dating back to the days when Axel Storhdal conducted the orchestra for his recordings. Never did I hear anything about hissinging slightly flat.I doubt that he would ever have been named as the best popular singer of the 20th century with a flat singing voice.

Frank is known to have a flat voice by all his fellow musicians
and the majority of the world , It takes nothing from his great songs and performances , he sings naturally slightly flat .its his thing,,..Fact!..

Sinatra was a baritone, but early in his career he could reach the high notes without difficulty. Later on, when he was much older and still was making popular recordings, he naturally could not reach the high notes with ease.Yet. we must remember, that his career spanned six decades,and what a remarkable career it was!

Flat? I don't know what you were listening to, but Sinatra was never flat in any of his legendary recordings. Put your ears a little closerand be sure you're listening to the right guy.

Well I guess if you like to listen to singing almost a semi tone flat , then Frank's your guy!

I agree with you, century123ful. Johnny Mathis did an excellent rendition and included the introductory chorus, but I prefer Frank's version.

Sorry, but Mathis will never achieve the brilliance of Sinatra. Even tho Frank recorded this song in 1945, it far surpasses Johnny's recording.

I fully concur.

I assume that you are referring to Charlie Parker. The 2 versions of "All the Things You Are" are quite different - one a romantic vocal with strings and the other cool jazz. I am a big fan of both artists and consider each version to have great merit.

nothing comes close to parker.

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The King of Cool.

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his songs make me dream of love and fairytails...only if it could happen in real life

Better, the arrangements were gentle and romantic. The later people were, in my opinion, "noisy".

who the hell could dislike sinatra, thats my only question

There is an excellent reason why he was known as "The Voice" during this period. No one surpassed him. Axel Stordahl's string arrangements were as good as the later ones of Gordon Jenkins and Nelson Riddle in my opinion.

I also like this famous recording by Frank where he showed he could hit the highest note he ever recorded.

As for the "sappy strings" mentioned by someone, I urge listening to that GREAT young voice (the best male popular singer EVER) wrapped by those strings. I agree with Nancy-- the Voice was best in the 40's, though he surely had matured vocally and in terms of rich interpretations in the 50's.

The only F.S. I regret was when he stayed on stage too long and the voice was spent.

@re6356 metal isnt that bad... now dubstep, that is pure garbage

You seem to be correct in your contention that this is Frank Sinatra's highest recorded note. I for one have never heard him sing anything higher than the note you mentioned at the finale of this utterly beautiful song.

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